Code: 08652099

Big Wheat

Name: Big Wheat
Brand: Sourcebooks, Inc
SKU: 08652099
Price: 20.51 EUR
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by Richard A. Thompson

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc, 2012
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Praise for Big Wheat... "An evocative look at the hardships of farming, the intersection of progress with old-fashioned ways, and the loneliness of the Great Plains." -Publishers Weekly The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide. Big Wheat is king as people gleefully embrace the gospels of progress and greed. But with Big Wheat comes a serial killer who calls himself the Windmill Man. He believes he has a holy calling to water the newly plucked earth with blood. The mobile harvest provides an endless supply of ready victims. He has been killing for years now and intends to kill for many more. Charlie Krueger also follows the harvest. Jilted by his childhood sweetheart and estranged from his drunkard father, he hopes to find a new life as a steam engineer. But in a newly harvested field in the nearly black Dakota night, he has come upon a strange man digging a grave. And in that moment, Charlie becomes the only person who has seen the face of a killer.... Richard A. Thompson is a civil engineer who traded his transit for a laptop and now writes mysteries full time. His first book, Fiddle Game, was short-listed for a Debut Dagger Award. His second, Frag Box, was a finalist in the Minnesota Book Awards. Big Wheat is a stand-alone historical mystery. www.readRichardAThompson.com